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"Demonstrating our designs to clients as XHTML/CSS pages rather than as static Photoshop or Fireworks has streamlined our workflow and helped us to set and manage a client’s expectations better than ever before. The biggest headaches for web designers and developers often come not from design, or from writing meaningful markup and CSS but from browser related issues. I'll assume and hope that you are already writing markup for the maximum meaning rather than simply to achieve a visual result." - Wally Punsapy

Most textbooks and methodology guides start with statistics proving that software projects are disastrously prone to failure. I'll take that for granted. They then propose complicated rules designed for a fantasy business world where cooperative workers idealistically work towards the common goal of maximizing shareholder value. - Wally Punsapy

"Fans will love this set of custom designed squadron patches. The 7 unique designs were inspired by the insignia from various character costumes as well as the plaques which lined the walls of the Pilot Ready Room aboard the Galactica. Each patch is fully embroidered and measures 3.5″ at the widest/tallest point." - Wally Punsapy

"Often, web applications will prompt the user to select a file, typically to upload to a server. Unless the web application makes use of a plugin, file selection occurs through an HTML input element, of the sort <input type="file"/>. Firefox 3.6 now supports much of the W3C File API, which specifies the ability to asynchronously read the selected file into memory, and perform operations on the file data within the web application (for example, to display a thumbnail preview of an image, before it is uploaded, or to look for ID3 tags within an MP3 file, or to look for EXIF data in JPEG files, all on the client side). This is a new API, and replaces the file API that was introduced in Firefox 3." - Wally Punsapy

"As farmers brought their crops to the city by bicycle or bus, long food lines began to dwindle and then disappear." - Wally Punsapy

"The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Foundation is a public benefit, nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic, and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist and Indiana native Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Library Foundation is creating a library that will also serve as a cultural and educational resource center, functioning as a museum, art gallery, and reading room for readers, writers, and students. In addition, the library will support language and visual arts education for the local community." - Wally Punsapy

"Instead of using Facebook to create rose-tinted portraits of themselves, more often people's Facebook profiles reflect their authentic personalities, with all of the quirks, funny faces and moodiness they entail." - Wally Punsapy

Node describes itself as “evented I/O for V8 javascript”. It’s a toolkit for writing extremely high performance non-blocking event driven network servers in JavaScript. Think similar to Twisted or EventMachine but for JavaScript instead of Python or Ruby. - Wally Punsapy

Not too long ago Google announced their new experimental, open source, system language which was said to be a mix of Python and C called Go. Immediately the internet super highway’s lights lit up and the news spread like wild fire. Comments came from all over and besides the news that another language with the same name already existed, the enthusiasm did not let up. Writing the odd ‘Hello Go’ program or dabbling with the syntax is all well and good but, until you sit down and write something a tad more useful, you do not really get to know whether a new language holds any promise. I learned about a Twitter client written in Go and asked it’s author Dmitry Chestnykh to share his experience. - Wally Punsapy

"What if Google released a JavaScript library that sucked, and no one noticed? JavaScript expert Dmitry Baranovskiy has peeked under the hood of Google’s new Closure Library, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Follow along as he points out a few of the library’s many failings, and why the Web deserves better from Google." - Wally Punsapy

"At once ambitiously conceived and weirdly unbaked, it had moments, even whole episodes, of brilliance. In the end, it was a failed genre experiment, in which a feminist sci-fi creator tried to use a police-procedural format (the type most frequently used as an excuse for endless close-ups of nude female corpses) to stage a metaphor about false consciousness and sex slavery." - Wally Punsapy

"At once ambitiously conceived and weirdly unbaked, it had moments, even whole episodes, of brilliance. In the end, it was a failed genre experiment, in which a feminist sci-fi creator tried to use a police-procedural format (the type most frequently used as an excuse for endless close-ups of nude female corpses) to stage a metaphor about false consciousness and sex slavery." - Wally Punsapy

1) Our Goal 2) Defining Functions 3) Named Functions 4) Functions as Objects 5) Context 6) Instantiation 7) Flexible Arguments 8) Closures 9) Temporary Scope 10) Function Prototypes 11) Instance Type 12) Inheritance 13) Built-in Prototypes 14) Enforcing Function Context 15) Bonus: Function Length - Wally Punsapy

"This article discusses the advantages of the pseudoclassical pattern over the functional pattern. I argue that the pattern used by the Closure Library paired with the Closure Compiler removes existing hazards while I also examine the hazards introduced by the functional pattern (as defined in The Good Parts)" - Wally Punsapy

"With The Box hitting theaters this weekend, we're about to get another dose of director Richard Kelly's evolving mythos, which began with Donnie Darko and continued with Southland Tales. So what is Kelly's Darko Mythos?" - Wally Punsapy

"I think that there's a sense of irony in our show...a realistic irony, that it takes aliens to give us health care. It is so difficult to get anything passed. To get this whole health care thing figured out. I think it's kind of funny and it speaks of our culture, and the fact that we are looking for somebody to rescue us, and pull us out of this hole we got ourselves into. And it might as well be an alien. " - Wally Punsapy

"Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what's left so that it will run fast on browsers' JavaScript engines. The compiler also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about other common JavaScript pitfalls." - Wally Punsapy

sad. - Wally Punsapy

Paul Ekman (born February 15, 1934) is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He is considered one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century.[1] The background of Ekman's research analyzes the development of human traits and states over time (Keltner, 2007). - Wally Punsapy

Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting OpenSocial apps quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy requests, and handle REST and RPC requests. - Wally Punsapy

"data:[<mime type>][;charset=<charset>][;base64],<encoded data>" - Wally Punsapy

HOLY SHIT, i want to barf! - Wally Punsapy

"Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves" - Wally Punsapy

the differences btwn three pieces of shit. - Wally Punsapy

"Last week I was in Paris for a Yahoo Developer Network evening and Paris Web and one of the talks I gave was an introduction to Yahoo Open Applications. These are applications that you can embed in the Yahoo homepage or My Yahoo and thus allow you to reach millions of users – or extend the Yahoo homepage with your own personal app." - Wally Punsapy

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. — Winston Churchill Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. –Mike Tyson - Wally Punsapy

"There's no question that Angel is a wonderfully complex fictional character. Since the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, everything about him has been designed to be intriguing: a vampire with a soul, a loving, decent man in search of redemption, tormented by the memory of all the evil deeds he committed in the past and determined to make amends. If conflict is the core of good drama, then Angel is the ideal dramatic character, because he is so conflicted on so many fundamental levels. He constantly strives to do good, yet he is a vampire, evil by his very nature. Or is he?" - Wally Punsapy

"You don’t know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed." - Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity - Wally Punsapy

"What I really like about all of these characters is that you’re not the cool kid or the dork or the mean girl. There are so many shades to all of us, and that’s really starting to unfold." - Wally Punsapy

"In reality, the Internet is more like a giant cascading multiplayer game of pachinko. You pour some balls in, they bounce around, lights flash and —usually— they come out in the right order on the other side of the world." - Wally Punsapy

very wacky, disturbing film. i like its arc about disconnected relationships and failures to communicate. - Wally Punsapy

I have discounted it in the past pretty much due to James Van Der Beek, but didn't realize it was based on a Bret Easton Ellis book. - Chris Pederick